Wreck It, Ralph (2012) - Good Or Bad...

★★★★☆

This is a surprisingly exhilarating piece of animation from Disney Studios whose ideas always seem pretty encouraging and out of the box, especially when you find life a little bit too disappointing and in the doldrums. ‘Wreck It, Ralph’, a story about a bad guy who longs to prove that he’s actually not so bad, involves a lot of funny characters from the games we used to play as a kid, like Street Fighters, Super Mario Bros, and many others I can’t really make head nor tail of. But no worries, even if you don’t know all about them, and may feel a bit perplexed at first, you’ll get to enjoy it and learn something after all, that is the necessity of realizing who you really should be, instead of being who you’re told to be. Just like Ralph says, I’m bad, and that’s good. I’ll never be good, and that’s not bad.

When we were just a kid, we tended to believe that people out there, like those in the games we played, were either good or bad. There was basically nothing in between to our little narrow mindset. Now we know there’s a lot of shades of gray in fact. There’s always a little bit of good in a bad guy, and a little bit of bad in a good guy. Like I said many times before, no such a thing as absolute good or evil, right or wrong, guilty or innocent, just or unjust. It’s nothing but our mere delusion. To realize that is extremely difficult. It takes an awakening soul. But not to realize that is extremely foolish and hurtful. We therefore must continue to learn to be aware of the fact that, if we change the way we look at things, things change. That we only see things as we are, not as they are. If we’re well aware of that, we'll become hopeful and start to feel alive for real.

We all considered Ralph a bad guy. Ralph considered himself a bad guy as well. That’s why he’s so desperate to have a medal or stuff in hopes of being respected and adored as a good guy. Turns out he doesn’t need anything to prove anything. He just has to be who he is—a bad guy with a good heart, and do what he should—be bad and help others to be good even if it means sacrificing his own life, regardless of however good or bad others think he is. Like he reassures in the end, if that little kid likes me, how bad can I be? Just remember, the mind is everything. You’re nothing but what you think, and so are others!